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  • Mental excercise and long life. Engraving illustrating the maxim that the life of mind and body is strengthened and prolonged by incessant toil.
  • The account of William Kelman, an old man above 100.
  • Ecclesiastes, chapter XII, on old age. From a family Bible, bound with the Book of Common Prayer, 1607.
  • Sebastian Brant, The ship of fools.
  • John Smith, King Solomon's Portrait of Old Age, title page.
  • Rejuvenation by Steam.
  • Section 'Those who cannot work'.
  • Form of bath or furnace for the treatment of insanity. From a page preserved in the Medizinische Institut, Zurich. Origin unknown.
  • Questionnaire on conditions of the Aged